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The 50 Best Biographies of All Time

Crown The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by Tom Reiss

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You’re probably familiar with The Count of Monte Cristo, the 1844 revenge novel by Alexandre Dumas. But did you know it was based on the life of Dumas’s father, the mixed-race General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave? Thanks to Reiss’s masterful pacing and plotting, this rip-roaring biography of Thomas-Alexandre reads more like an adventure novel than a work of nonfiction. The Black Count won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2013, and it’s only a matter of time before a filmmaker turns it into a big-screen blockbuster.

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Men of Our Day - by L. P. Brockett, M. D.
Published in 1872, this book contains biographical sketches of many prominent and successful men of that time. Included are several leaders of the Civil War, many politicians and businessmen of the day.
The Lives of the Presidents and How They Reached the White House by Charles Morris, LL.D.
Includes individual biographies about the Presidents from George Washington through Theodore Roosevelt.
Biography of David Crockett, By John S. C. Abbott
David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerful influence over this republic. As such, his wild and wondrous life is worthy of the study of every patriot. Of this class, their